Baykalovsky District Local History Museum

About museum

The Baykalovsky District Local History Museum was opened in 1985, on the 40th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The core of the initial materials consisted of memoirs and photographs of war participants. The initiator and first director was war veteran Arefyev Valentin Petrovich. In 2000 the local history museum was given an old building dating from 1896 (the D. A. Bakharev Mansion), which possesses unique architectural features. In 2012 the mansion was designated a cultural heritage site of the peoples of the Russian Federation of regional significance. Over the years the museum's collections have grown to 10,000 exhibits — photographs from various periods, wooden sculptures of wild and domestic animals, documents, albums, household items, currency and badges, paintings, examples of applied arts, printed materials, etc. The museum presents various exhibitions: 'Ancient Life on the Baykalovsky Land', 'Peasant Life in the Late 19th — Early 20th Century', 'No One Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Forgotten', 'A Living Room of the 1960s'. In addition to thematic exhibitions, the museum annually hosts creative events such as the 'Pokrov Fair', 'Christmas Souvenir', 'Let's Walk Through the Village' and others.